Minley

Minley is a hamlet in the Hart District of Hampshire, England. In the ecclesiastical parish of Minley and the civil parish of Blackwater and Hawley.[1] It lies on the A327 road between the M3 and Yateley. Its nearest town is Blackwater, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) away to the northeast.

Minley
Minley
Location within Hampshire
OS grid referenceSU8156155609
Civil parish
District
  • Hart
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townFleet
Postcode districtGU51
PoliceHampshire
FireHampshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament

History

Minley is included in the Domesday Book[2] as Mindeslei,[3] in the Holesete Hundred, Hantescire (Hampshire) as a Manor in Yateley, assessed at 2 hides and worth 20s, and was in the possession of Alsi son of Brictsi.[2]

Historic spellings of Minley include; Mundeleya, 1189-1199; Mundele, 1236; Mendeley, 1280; Mynley, 1516[4] and Mindley in the 18th century.[5] Minley ferm (Farm) is shown on an Old map by Norden from 1607[6] being in the Crundall Hundred of Hamshire.

In the Domesday Book, the Manor of Minley is described as an area of land/estate of 2 hides (approx. 240-300 acres); now however, Minley Manor is a term used locally for the mansion house built by Henry Clutton in 1858-1860, which was formerly used by the Royal School of Military Engineering.[7]

Guillemont Barracks, located further north on the Minley Road, were built in 1938.[8] After the site was decommissioned by the British Army, it was purchased by Sun Microsystems in 1997 for £36m.[9] Sun Microsystems intended to build 5 office buildings on the site, but after two phases were complete and the dot com bubble bursting in 2000, phase 3 was halted mid-build [9] (the steel superstructure of the last two buildings, that weren't completed, remained until March 2015). With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation in 2009[10] business and staff were relocated to Oracle's Headquarters in Thames Valley Park, Reading. Property company Landid bought the former headquarters in January 2011. In December 2013, a planning application to demolish the part built structures and to build 150 homes on the site was refused.[11]

Gibraltar Barracks, located further north on the Minley Road, were built in the 1970s and are still in use.[12]

References
  1. Blackwater and Hawley Town Council
  2. Minley entry in Open Domesday
  3. British History Online website
  4. Crondal records from Yateley Local History
  5. Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Archived at the University of Portsmouth
  6. Old map by Norden from 1607
  7. "Historic Minley Manor sold to international investor". Insider Media. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  8. Mary and John: the early years, Volume 2 by Michael John Laekas
  9. db Real Estate news January 2011
  10. Sun Microsystems (8 June 2009). "Definitive Merger Proxy". EDGAR. United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  11. Rushmoor Borough Council planning application
  12. "Visit of Her Majesty the Queen to the Corps of Royal Engineers 29 October 1976". Retrieved 31 March 2018.
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